Jan 22 2018
Perspective
India currently reports 99.4% electrification, yet there are 304 million people who still lack access to electricity according to the recent draft of the National Energy Policy (NEP) issued by …
Jan 11 2018
Perspective
About 300 million people in India, most of them in rural areas, live without reliable electricity. Without electricity, people’s livelihood options are limited, access to basic services is restricted, and …
Jan 03 2018
Perspective
Government affirmation of off-grid models being a complementary way of viable electricity provision will be critical to unlocking market potential. A quarter of the world’s energy poor live in India. This …
Dec 08 2017
Current plans to provide “Power for All” in India via the country’s utility or distribution companies (known as discoms), through main-grid extension and utility-scale generation projects, are largely polluting, slow to …
Power
Oct 04 2017
Perspective
This piece first appeared in the March 2017 issue of ESI Africa and reposted with permission. Accessible, reliable, affordable electricity - this makes the difference between a prosperous society that is …
Sep 17 2017
Sep 17 2017
Perspective
See firsthand the transformative power of energy access on people’s lives by viewing “Power in Hand”: a virtual reality experience. Mobile users, click to view the virtual reality film on YouTube …
Jun 27 2017
Perspective
This post originally appeared on Trust.org. When India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with President Donald Trump this week in Washington, it will be a telling encounter—not only for the U.S.-India …
Jun 26 2017
Perspective
The Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC), the organization I founded with many dear friends and fellow activists in 1984, is now over three decades old. While …
Jun 14 2017
India is one of the first countries in the world to take the bold move of requiring companies to spend a minimum portion of their net profits on social development. …
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